There are plenty of nuisance jobs to be done around the farm that eat away at me ever so slightly until I finally say enough is enough – the drippy roof in the old workshop has been one such niggle from the very start.

We have a couple of corrugated plastic skylights that got a few cracks in them so we’d see a persistent leak whenever it rained (which of course it does a fair bit here ?). So, in preparation for next season, I bit the bullet and went off to the shop to get some new plastic sheeting.

And… it’s expensive! €90 alone just for the sheets, and more for the self driving fittings and waterproof washers. Now, I’m certainly no stranger to shelling out money in this place but we have a long road ahead of us so we’re trying to cut back where we can.

So I made the prudent decision to return the plastic sheeting and grab a couple steel sheets we had left over from the lean-to roof I dismantled months ago. Armed with our trusty crowbar and a new roll of Gorilla tape, I was able to reuse the fixings, seal up the holes with tape (lordy lord I hope that works ??) and bish bosh, job done! It kinda sucks the workshop is so dark inside now but we have lights in there and we’re planning on replacing the whole roof anyway, hopefully with proper skylights so this will do for now.